Thomas Viertel

Tom Viertel has produced a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for over 30 years. Shows include: Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Gypsy, Angels in America, Young Frankenstein, The Norman Conquests, Sweeney Todd, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Oleanna, Love Letters, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Penn and Teller and many others.

A graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Viertel is a member of the Board of Governors, Government Relations, and Tony Management Committees of The Broadway League and a Trustee of the Equity-League Pension Funds. With his partners, Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh, he owns Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club. He is the Executive Director of the Commercial Theater Institute, which provides a comprehensive curriculum in producing for Broadway. He is Chairman of the Board of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, America’s foremost development center for new theatrical work, in Waterford, Connecticut, the recent winner of the National Medal of the Arts.